Improvement in buttons for garments



ANNA CATHARINE WILHELM.

Buttons for Garments.

No.135,739. Paremerebmnss.

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UNITED STATES NPATENT OFFICE.

ANNA CATHARINE WILHELM, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

lMPRVEMENT IN BUTTONS FOR GARMENTS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 135,739, dated February 1l, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ANNA CATHARINE W1L- HELM, of the city of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain Improvements in Buttons for Garments, of which the following is a specification:

My invention relates to a anged shouldered stem, which forms the shank to be passed 'through the garment, a detachable pin, and a vtransverse hole inthe end of the stem, in combination witha flat disk and an annillar screwcap, whereby the central or inclosed face Aof the-disk forming the button proper can be readily renewed or changed by a change of a. covering fabric ofthe said disk; the object of this part of `my invention being to afford a detachable button applicable to a garment without sewing, the central portion of the face of which can, at `any time, be varied by simply substituting one covering for another, as the ornamental style or fashion may, from time to time, require or using render necessary.

My invention also relates to a modification in the construction of the ornamental face of the detachable buttomwhether the latter be flat,

plano-convex, lenticular, oval, or hollow sphere in form, by attaching, in a readily removable or changeable manner, an ornamental central cap to the end ofthe fian ged shouldered stem or shank of the button, so as to clamp the disk, sphere, or other form of the button firmly between the latter and the shoulder of the shank,

the object of this part of my invention bein g the same as that specified in the preceding paragraph.

Figure lis a diametrical section of the han ged shouldered stem, crosspin, dat disk, annular screw-cap, and ornamental fabric adjusted together to form the complete button. Fig. 2 is a diametrical section of the detachable annular screw-cap detached. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the flat disk and annular screw-cap, showing the cross-pin in a groove of the dat disk as passed through the end of the stem. Fig. 4 is a diametrieal section of the same button with- Figs. 5, 6, and 7 are, respectively, diametrical sections of the annular screw-cap, flexible fabric, and a fender-ring to isolate the fabric from the cr0sspin. Fig. 8 is a section of the shank, fiat disk7 and cross-pin above the disk. Fig. 9 is a diametrical section of the same button with the cross-pin in a tubular projection on the under side of the dat disk. Fig. 10 is a solid oval (in its transverse or diametrical section) bead applied as a buttonto the shank, and secured by a screw-cap on the end of the said shank. Fig. ll is a dialnetrical section of a plano-conveX covered button-mold, secured to the shank by a screw-cap, as in Fig. 10. Fig. 12 is a hollow bead or glass sphere, secured to the shank by a tubular screw-cap as a modication of the form of removably securing the button to the shank shown in Figs. 10 and 11.

The shank A has the flan ge l and shoulder 2, as shown in the drawing. The detachable pin 3 is inserted through a corresponding hole made transversely through the upper part of the stem of the shank A. In the flatdisk button, shown by Figs. l and 3, the pin is sunk in a groove, 4, made for the purpose in the upper side of the disk B. In Figs. 4 and 8 the pin is shown asin contact wit-h the upper surface of the said disk B; and in Fig. 9 the pin is shown as in a tubular projection ou the under side of said disk. In either case the result is the same, i. e., the securing the disk B and the shank `A adj ustably or detachably together. The annular cap C is screw-cut around in the inner side of its flange, and the perimeter of the disk B is correspondingly screw-cut, so that the former can be readily applied by screwing it over the latter, and thus' securing between them a disk of cloth, velvet, silk, or any other ornamental fabric, D, to produce the changeable face of the button whenever a change in the same may be desirable. It is important to have a uniformly-evensurface for the fabric D to rest upon, and hence the groove 4 in Figs. l and 4 and the tubular projection in Fig. 9 for the reception of the cross-piu 3, both of which constructions leave the upper side of the disk B even; butin dispensing with the groove, as shownl in Figs. 4 and 8, the piu 3 has to be covered by a ring or flanged disk, Fig. 7, in order to give the even surface desired for the fabric D. In either mode, however, a uniform even surface is afforded for the fabric D, which can be applied and changed, as wear, fancy, or fashion may suggest, by simply removing :and re-applying the ring C with the new fabric between it and the disk B, and thus producing a newlyfaced button at any time at a trilling' cost.

fThe modifications of my improved button, shown in Figs. 10, 11, and 12, have the changeable central cap C made to screw upon the end of the stem of the shank A, which projects upward through the button disk or bead surtieiently for the purpose of receiving the cap C with the bead or mold, which forms the body of the button, between the said cap C andthe shoulder 2 of the shank A.

It will be seen that a detachable button with a renewable face or ornamental center can be produced by either of the modifications shown and described in the drawing and specications herein set forth, thus affording change and variety in style without dispensing with the same shank and cap, and consequently at a trifling cost.

I do not desire to claim, broadly, a detachable button, nor, broadly, a shank and buttonbody detachably secured together, forattaching to and detacliing from garments without 2. The shank 'A and detachable cap C', in

combination with the changeable disk E or either of the beads F G, the said parts being secured together, respectively, substantially as and for the purposes hereinbefore set forth and described.

ANNA CATHARINE WILHELM.

Xilitnesses:

BENJ. Momsolv, WM. H. Morrison.

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